Le Quan Cong

Le Quan Cong (1939-) was a Viet Cong guerrilla during the Vietnam War.

Biography
Le Quan Cong was born in 1939, and he joined the Viet Minh in 1951 at the age of 12, fighting in the First Indochina War against France. During the 1950s, he took part in the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam, and he and 12 other insurgents used machetes to hack the official Soc to death in a rice paddy. From 1960 to 1975, he fought in the Mekong Delta, and he took part in the major victory at the Battle of Ap Bac in 1963. He survived the failed Tet Offensive attack on Saigon in 1968 while commanding a platoon, and, by the war's end, three of his brothers and a sister were killed by the US or South Vietnam despite being civilians.